Spanish-American War

Warm Up What 3 factors

drove America to pursue overseas territories in the late 1800s?

• Economic Needs• Military Security• Ethnocentric Beliefs

Activity Review• Where did we go

and why?• Midway, Wake,

Samoa : Naval bases, refuel, supply

• Hawaii: Economic• Alaska: Security

Activity Review Role of US in

Asia?• Japan & China

“Spheres of Influence”• Regions of

exclusive rights to trade

• China’s Open Door Policy• John Hay 1899• Equal access

• Boxer Rebellion

Activity Review Role of US in Latin

America?• Monroe Doctrine

w/force• Chile & Brazil: Flex

naval power• Venezuela: Border

dispute with GB

Setting the Scene: Cuba Revolts

Cuban Revolution• 1868

• US stays out of it • Spanish rule remains

• 1895• Nationalists

US sympathizes with Cuban move for independence, why?– Shared struggle– Economics: trade,

investment– Weyler’s Reconcentration

Camps– Yellow Journalists- Pulitzer,

Hurst• Jingoism – intense

national pride

What caused the US to go to war?

de Lome letter USS Maine

Reading

Spanish-American War

US goals in Cuba No control Leave to the people

“Splendid Little War”

April 1898– Congress authorizes war, Teller Amendment

May – Dewey and Victory in Manila

July– US army & navy drive Spanish from Cuba

(Teddy’s Rough Riders)

Spanish American War

Setbacks• Army unprepared• Short on supplies• Wool uniforms

• Bad meat = food poisoning

• Yellow fever & malaria

• Bad medical care

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Treaty of Paris 1898 Philippines:

• US buys $20 million • Rebellion breaks

out

Guam & Puerto Rico:• Ceded to US

• Asian trade base• Defend Caribbean

• Territories – US Citizens

Cuba• Military

Occupation • Constitution

• Platt Amendment (naval base)

Activity Attitudes towards imperialism?

• Read the primary sources on both sides and answer the questions that follow.

Closure• How did events of Spanish-American War

influence American Imperialism? How have these events influenced the face of America today?

Homework Create T-chart

Pro-Imperialism Anti-Imperialism

Identify economic, social, and political reasons forand against imperialism